There are some elaborate tuning instructions - which among other things suggest that bourdons on the lower courses were optional - and this is a Spanish source. They also freely mix unisons and octaves with gay abandon.
----- Original Message ----- From: "bill kilpatrick" <[email protected]>
To: "Vihuelalist" <[email protected]>; "Monica Hall" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 5:43 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: antiqua (guatemala) vihuela manuscript
"The vihuela doesn't have to be a vihuela ... " - 'yep. the manuscript sounds interesting - i assume the precise tuning isn't mentioned but if you would please post a visual of how the chords are set out, according to Amat's system, that would be great. regards - bill http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=billkilpatrick --- On Mon, 19/7/10, Monica Hall <[email protected]> wrote: From: Monica Hall <[email protected]> Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: antiqua (guatemala) vihuela manuscript To: "Taco Walstra" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>, "Vihuelalist" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 19 July, 2010, 14:52 Well folks believe it or not... I have what appears to be a study of this manuscript in Spanish which someone - I think an Internet friend in Spain - sent me some time ago. I have never got around to reading it but a quick look now suggests that it is about the 5-course guitar - including setting out the chords according to Amat's system. And why not? The vihuela deosn't have to be a vihuela. I could if anyone wants to look at it try posting it on my ning page. Regards to all Monica ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taco Walstra" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:32 AM Subject: [LUTE] antiqua (guatemala) vihuela manuscript > Dear all, > A few weeks ago I happened to be in Antiqua in Quatemala. They have a tiny museum containing old manuscrips and books which were printed in 16th and 17th century in quatemala. Among the books shown there were 4 books containing music and one manuscript where the description mentioned that it was about vihuela tuning. 23 pages following were to contain religious music. Of course it would have been nice if this manuscript contains vihuela tablature, but the museum description didn't mention this, although it looks like that the music was intended to be played on vihuela. Unfortunately there was nobody available to provide more information. I made 2 pictures of the pages and will put them on a website this week. Anybody more info about this book? > Taco > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
